Re: [XFree86] XFree86-4.3.0 & ATI Radeon 9000 Mobility

[Wes Janzen]

I don't have that particular card, but I do have the ATI AIW 9000 Pro, 
and I'm running it with XFree 4.3 and SuSE 8.0 using their RPMS.  Sax 
didn't work too well, but I'd already set it up with my old banshee so I 
just changed the card section in /etc/X11/XF86Config to:

Section "Device"
 BoardName    "Radeon 9000 All-In-Wonder"
 BusID        "1:0:0"
 Driver       "ati"
 #Driver       "radeon"
 Option       "AGPMode"          "2"
 Option       "AGPFastWrite"     "on"
 Option       "EnablePageFlip"   "on"
 Option       "EnableDepthMoves" "on"
 Option       "CloneDisplay"     "0"
 Identifier   "Device[0]"
 Screen       0
 VendorName   "ATI"
EndSection
Then I changed DefaultDepth in my "Screen" section to 24 since the 
radeon can run 3D at that bitdepth, whereas my banshee could not (so 
none of my GL screensavers would work on the banshee).

But I'm running the 2.6.0-test2 kernel, so you'll probably want to 
download the dri cvs kernel modules and install them.  You probably want 
to install newer XFree modules, as was suggested, too.  The radeon is 
actually doing slightly worse than my banshee with the modules that came 
with the SuSE XFree RPM.  I'm hoping the updated XFree modules will fix 
that (the 2.6.0-test2 kernel modules were recently synced with cvs, so I 
don't think they're the problem).

I hope that helps.

-wes

Yves Caniou wrote:

Hi,

 

Dear XFree86-Experts,
   

Well, I am no expert, but i tried some things for my M9..

 

Recently, I installed SuSE Linux 8.1 on my Dell Inspiron 5150 Laptop which
is equipped with a ATI Radeon 9000 Mobility. Unfortunately, in SaX2 I was
not able to select my graphics card. In another forum I was advised to
install the new XFree86-4.3.0 which is supposed to contain a driver for the
Radeon 9000. After I installed everything my graphics card was still not in
the list. So I selected the Radeon 8500. At least, I could increase my
screen resolution now to 1600x1200. However, once I try to activate the
3D-acceleration I'm told that my board doesn't support this. I already
toyed around with glxgears but  I don't know what I'm supposed to see and
which frame rate I can expect. I have a P4 with 3.06GHz. In addition, after
installing the new XFree86 my mouse doesn't work sometimes. I have
connected an extern Logitech wheel mouse. There are three cases: (1)
touchpad and mouse work correctly, (2) only the touchpad works or (3) both
do not work at all.
   

You have to change the drivers for your radeon etc..
Download at http://dri.sourceforge.net in Downloads section the file that you 
need (here normally, radeon-20030809-linux-i386.tar.bz2)
You can also compile the whole Xfree86 stuff, but I personnally prefered to 
download this.. :)
The file contains the script to run as root, it will install all the stuff 
after compiling it for your system (you need to have installed the 
kernel-source of the running system).
I have installed it for both kernel 2.4.20 and 2.4.21, and the XFree86.0.log 
says the dri is enabled, acceleration etc... So It is normally perfect...
But (yeap, there is a but :( ), glxinfo says that there is no direct 
rendering... 
For now, if you try and achieve to make it work...

.Yves.

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